Re: [dev] Anti-GPL hipsters

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:46:24 -0000, Stephen Paul Weber  
<singpol...@singpolyma.net> wrote:
Somebody claiming to be mikshaw wrote:
As far as the cc-nd license RMS apparently prefers for his own audio, I
fully agree this is hypocritical and wrong.

Not to wade into a flametroll war, but for the record (in case there are
people who actually don't know) RMS believes in ND licenses for speech so
that he has a legal tool against people who take such speech out of  
context
or misquote it in other ways.

By forbidding *all* derived works. I don't wish to hire a lawyer just to  
tell me if I can translate a speech, resample video recordings, generate  
3D video from independantly distributed footage from two cameras or  
otherwise modify recordings without changing the meaning of the speech. In  
fact, any restrictions on video (as opposed to audio) footage is  
unacceptable. And IMO, the same is true of audio. Misquotal is harmful,  
whether the misquote is considered a derived work or not, or if copyright  
has expired. Copyright is the wrong tool (save for moral copyright).